Adult-onset diabetes in young people

Young adult-onset diabetes, abbreviated as MODY (maturity onset diabetes of the young). In 1975, Fajans and Tattersall analyzed the series of reports since 1950, and named this type of non-insulin-dependent diabetes with early onset of age and common features of autosomal dominant inheritance as MODY. The classification of WHO in 1985 is a subtype of non-insulin-dependent diabetes. Recently, with the advancement of molecular genetics and in-depth research on the etiology and pathogenesis of diabetes, the 1997 ADA and 1999 WHO diabetes experts reported that it was classified as a special type, which is a single gene mutant islet beta; genetic defects in cell function Caused by diabetes.